Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radio's outdated version of the U.S. farmer-a Mortimer Snerdish bumpkin borrowed from the burlesque stage-has changed radically in the last month. In a new quiz show called R.F.D. America (Mutual, Thurs. 9:30 p.m., E.S.T.), the real farmer turns out to be an alert, articulate, well-schooled young man-with no straw in his hair and no quid in his cheek...
Tagliavini had met buxom Pia Tassinari (still her stage name) in Sicily during the war. They were singing opposite each other in Mascagni's L'Amico Fritz in Palermo. Suddenly the air-raid sirens screamed. Audience and singers scurried for shelter. Then Tenor Tagliavini, who had taken an instant shine to the black-eyed soprano, got his chance. In the darkness of the shelter, says he, he murmured "sweet words of comfort...
...turned down at first because originally it had no female roles), the audience in the Marinsky Theater received it with enthusiastic astonishment. Said one spectator: "What sort of opera is this? There's no music in it; but I must confess I never took my eyes from the stage." Russian critics and musicians regarded it with horror. Screamed one: "This is a disgrace to all Russia...
Vanity Fair is constructed like a revolving stage, where city & country and night & day whirl drunkenly together. In the foreground, a naked figure leans out of his window to peer through the gloom at Cain killing Abel in the sunlit distance...
Last week's stage version managed to bury not only the deeper half but the whole of Dostoevsky's novel-giving it, as the only compensation, a highly picturesque funeral. Actor Gielgud's Raskolnikov can be enjoyed as a brilliantly mannered performance, but as a portrait it is worthless. Ackland's stage piece itself is like a translation that inserts innumerable adjectives while omitting all the verbs; it substitutes atmosphere for action, and theatrical color for dramatic force. The stage set-a cross-section of Raskolnikov's swarming rooming house-is a fine device...